My How You've Grown iPod

iPods have changed since I first was introduced to them. This is no lie. Actually, the whole media experience has changed since I remember.

Now, I wasn't around for the transister radio, but I heard those were the beatin'est things.

The first thing I remember on the portabale media end was on cassette. The Walkman was my first iPod. Everyone had one. They were the most happening thing when I was younger. iPods were not even a thought back then. No, we were scaling new heights with CDs.

I remember my first CD player. You couldn't carry it around because it would skip, but boy were those CDs cool. **

It was a smaller gap between CDs and MP3s than there was Cassettes and CDs. It was like the whole media world sped up. Things were becoming more digital. I mean, you can see the difference in video quality in Star Wars Episode I vs the video quality in Star Wars Episode II.

MP3s were magical! You could download music, and burn them onto the new burnable CDs! It was awesome! Then, out came the mp3 players.

These were foriegn to most people, difficult to understand, and people stared at them like monkeys wondering where the tape went into, or the CDs.

And in the year 2001. The Space Odessy year, iPods came out. They swept the world with their cool, sleek design and user-friendly-ness. When my friends all went out to refund their new generic mp3 players, they came back with iPods.

They didn't ask me if I had one, they asked me where I kept it (I was still listening to CDs then).

iPods were it. They were the pinnacle. Nothing could beat them. Accessories and plugins and upgrades were coming in as fast as the little boogers could sell.

It was almost as if they could take over the Walkman Status, and iPods did.

I am going to side track here, taking on to a new phenomenon in the internet world: Video. Video became so big on the internet community, that it was like the online popular equivalent to the iPod. "What videos are on your youtube?" They asked.

Video grew to humongous porportions. As did the iPod. Little did the world know that as soon as Apple could make iPod's screens work it out, video was coming to iPod.

And this is where we are today. Not only is portable media popular, you can pretty much download any video on the internet from movies and TV shows to youtube.com podcasts right on to your iPod. It's absolutely amazing how this has progressed over the last few years.

What's next for iPod? Are they going to slow down? or are they going to start something new? How can they get any better? Are iPods ever going to decrease in the publics popularity rating?

iPod Video is not as new as it once was, but I think it's because people expect so much from Apple. iPod video, need I say more? It's one of the many advances in portable technology that has me baffled.

Hey! You got video in my iPod! You got iPod in my Video! Mmmm.

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I am disregarding the quickly thrown out "Mini discs". Those were a waste of time.